[Mono-list] Compiling mono* from git

Sun Jun 23 17:38:58 UTC 2013

Let meknow if You need some help until I dinish weiteup

Mel

Miljenko Cvjetko
http://holisticware.net
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On 23. 6. 2013., at 18:39, Nic Wise <nicw at fastchicken.co.nz> wrote:

> Thanks! I'll give the github link a go!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Nic
> 
> On 23 June 2013 12:41, Miljenko Cvjetko <mcvjetko at holisticware.net> wrote:
>> Hi Nic
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013.06.23 12:09, Nic Wise wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mel
>> 
>> Sorry if this is documented somewhere else (if so, I'd love the url),
>> but where did you get MVC4 from, to run on Mono?
>> 
>> I'm planning to do howto in next few days or on my holidays in July.
>> 
>> So this is the story: we did several presentations in last month and a half
>> on various Croatian
>> Microsoft DevUGs and I was surprised how small was the knowledge about mono
>> in general.
>> 
>> So I decided to show how good mono really is. Did MVC 2 out of the box, even
>> XS template.
>> Then skipped MVC 3 (had no time because of projects) and went directly to
>> MVC 4. I gave
>> myself/ourselves 3 days to try it and did it in 8-9 hours.
>> 
>> Basic steps:
>> 
>> VIsual Studio template for MVC4 application
>> a bit web.config tweaking
>> a bit of references tweaking (those that are not yet integrated in Mono like
>> EF)
>> 
>> mostly copy local =  true.
>> 
>> there are some issues, but ASP.net swallows exceptions (they are there, but
>> not propagated)
>> 
>> some packages (still) write into registry (I'm not sure which one, but
>> excpetion is there)
>> few issues with case sensitivity for css files in
>> ~/App_Start/BundleConfig.cs
>> 
>> Additional:
>> 
>> currently we have 3-4 proof of concept projects mobile/desktop + web MVC4
>> and we have tried even sample with Razor/ASPX rendering in common and it
>> works.
>> when I get some time I'd like to test more WebAPI
>> default register/authentication has SQLServer backend and I haven't had
>> enough
>> time to remove that
>> next step would be to exclude dlls from template and move to those in Mono
>> GAC
>> (less copy loca =  true), but this much more information (rundown what is
>> where
>> in .net and mono)
>> 
>> 
>> I only have a Mac, no windows machine (well, no easy access to them) -
>> is there a nice bootstrap around somewhere to use with Xamarin Studio?
>> 
>> We have VS template, but they are different from XS/MD (at least I think
>> so), but
>> it is just folder structure right? You could unzip it and use it as "XS
>> template".
>> 
>> We did presentation "2 hrs, 4 man hrs, 8 platforms" where we did small app
>> for
>> pushing images onto server - our version of Instagram/Picasa. In this
>> workshop
>> our Mac guy Ivan/Iki (he was in Your presentation on Evolve 00:50) did MVC2
>> template and showed that that works, pushed solution to git, I took on
>> Windows
>> side and added MVC4 app, added models, views, controllers and web services,
>> pushed
>> that into git and he could run it on Mac.
>> 
>> I'll upload VS template on our sever and force myself to write howto. is
>> that OK?
>> 
>> 
>> yes pls try from git:
>> https://github.com/holisticware/HolisticWare.PR.DevUG.CKVZ.SlideShow/tree/master/2013-06-11/HolisticWare.SlideShow
>> 
>> sample:
>> HolisticWare.SlideShow.EXE_ASPnetMVC4
>> 
>> rest of the samples might work, but this is our construction site and guys
>> are testing and working
>> on some parts.
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> mel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Nic
>> 
>> On 22 June 2013 15:43, Miljenko Cvjetko <mcvjetko at holisticware.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Here is my 2c Ubunut (Debian should be the same) CentOS comes this weekend
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> prep script for Ubuntu (I think debian too)
>> 
>> #/bin/bash
>> 
>> sudo apt-get -y --fix-missing install \
>> gcc g++ bison gettext make \
>> libtool autoconf \
>> git
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> compile script for Debian/Ubuntu
>> 
>> #/bin/bash
>> 
>> 
>> rm -fr mono/
>> git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git
>> cd mono
>> 
>> # Instead of
>> # ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> # choices
>> # ./configure --prefix=/opt/mono
>> #
>> 
>> #./configure --prefix=/usr
>> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
>> 
>> make
>> sudo make install
>> mono -V
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> resulting in
>> ASP.net MVC4 in AWS EC2
>> http://mono-aspnet-mvc4-aws.holisticware.org/
>> 
>> best regards
>> 
>> mel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013.06.22 15:56, Nic Wise wrote:
>> 
>> I'm on Ubuntu (slightly different I think? I'm on a Linode)  - I just
>> followed this:
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13365158/installing-mono-3-0
>> 
>> (second answer down). Only extra thing I needed to do was make sure I
>> checked out the right tag (mono-3.0.12 now) and loaded libgtk2.0-dev
>> 
>> apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
>> 
>> Works great otherwise
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 22 June 2013 10:41, Trust <tu at tobiasulm.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi *,
>> 
>> i cloned mono from git repo as described.
>> My problem is that in mono, or monodevelop or xsp there is no
>> configure.sh
>> So my question is when i try to compile my own packages on fedora (cause
>> the
>> packages in fedora a damn old) how to? There are no configure.sh scripts.
>> Did i miss something?
>> 
>> Thx and greetings from lower bavaria
>> 
>> Tobi
>> 
>> 
>> 
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